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One Pillar Pagoda in 1896. During Nguyễn dynasty, the pagoda was restored and rebuilt in 1840-1850 and 1922.. The pagoda was dynamited in 1954. Contrary to what is commonly written, it was not destroyed by the French, but by a Vietnamese Lieutenant of the French Army who was severely punished.
Điện Biên Phủ (Vietnamese: [ɗîənˀ ɓīən fû] ⓘ, chữ Hán: 奠 邊 府) is a city in the northwestern region of Vietnam.It is the capital of Điện Biên Province.
Diễn Châu is adjacent to the rural districts Yên Thành (West), Nghi Lộc (South) and Quỳnh Lưu (North). The East of this rural district looks out of the Diễn Châu Bay (vũng Diễn Châu), which is a part of the Tonkin Gulf.
Lê Duẩn (Vietnamese: [lē zʷə̂n]; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd National Congress in 1960.
In 1954, the First Indochina War came to an end after the decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu, where more than 10,000 French soldiers surrendered to the Viet Minh. The subsequent Geneva Accords peace process partitioned North Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
Thanh Nhan Hospital (Vietnamese: Bệnh viện Thanh Nhàn) is a large hospital in Thanh Nhan ward, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi, Vietnam. [1] Located in a labour quarter, it is regarded as a hospital for workers and the poor in Hanoi. It was recently [when?] updated, creating two more adjunct hospitals.
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh was born in 924 in Hoa Lư (south of the Red River Delta, in what is today Ninh Bình Province).Growing up in a local village during the disintegration of the Chinese Tang dynasty that had dominated Vietnam for centuries, Đinh Bộ Lĩnh became a local military leader at a very young age.
Francis Nguyễn Trọng Trí, penname Hàn Mặc Tử (September 22, 1912 – November 11, 1940), was a Vietnamese poet.He was the most celebrated Vietnamese Catholic literary figure during the colonial era.